Coronavirus.

Mudgie

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Rant away. The worst thing the government did was to say it was wrong to ask people for proof you were 'exempt' from mask wearing. As it seems about 70% of the population think they are.

You do a job I really don't envy, particularly with current level of idiocy around. Thank you.
If supermarket staff aren't challenging uncompliant customers they certainly wouldn't want to ask them personal questions.
 
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basil

don't mention the blinds
UK becoming more isolated by the hour.
Prime minister may like to borrow one of old Hopalong's soundbites "You ain't seen nothing yet" ! or was that Bachman Turner Overdrive?

Let's Rock !!!......
 

Mudgie

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Because they haven't been given the right to do so. If they had, it would be a different story.
But do you really think supermarket staff wouldn't mind stopping stacking shelves to ask "What's the medical reason preventing you from wearing a face mask ?"
 

Mudgie

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Perhaps a security guard on the door like there is in most supermarkets, just asking to see proof of exemption.

Simple as that. No exemption proof, no entry. People only try it on because they know they can.
And then several yards into the supermarket the face mask is below their chins.
 

Mudgie

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No. The behaviour would be totally different if it was law.

Or is that just what you would do?
Oh, yes, like everyone obeying all other coronavirus restrictions that are law !
Not that I have been in a supermarket this year but I have worn a mask as required when in a Post Office, pharmacy or at the doctors.
I know of a few people that wouldn't want to share their medical details with a supermarket "security guard" and I don't blame them.
 

MilleD

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Oh, yes, like everyone obeying all other coronavirus restrictions that are law !
Not that I have been in a supermarket this year but I have worn a mask as required when in a Post Office, pharmacy or at the doctors.
I know of a few people that wouldn't want to share their medical details with a supermarket "security guard" and I don't blame them.

Why the hell would they need to exchange any medical details? An exemption means that, no-one needs to know why. And you know some people's exemptions might not even be medical as such?

Honestly, do you argue with yourself when you are alone?
 

Mudgie

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Why the hell would they need to exchange any medical details? An exemption means that, no-one needs to know why. And you know some people's exemptions might not even be medical as such?

Honestly, do you argue with yourself when you are alone?
So has Boris initiated a nationally recognised exemption certificate that identifies someone without giving any further details ?
Yes, arguing with myself when I'm alone is a good way of properly thinking things through. You should try it sometime.
 

Lucy

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Next week you'll know someone who knows someone close to them that's died.

The week after, you'll know someone who's died.

The week after that, we'll be in shock.

Next month you'll look back at this week like it was the last time that toilet paper was the summit of your worries.

Managing expectations, rather than hanging on in quiet desperation, has been the English way.

The time is gone, the song is over, wish i'd something better to say.

Good luck everyone. Let's keep in touch, what?
I thought I'd go back to the start of this thread, and I despair at some of the stuff I wrote. This stuck out though. We did not manage expectations at all (we being Boris Johnson)
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
If you are genuinely exempt from wearing a mask, is there some established manner in which you can inform anybody who might challenge you about it?

Where I am, in the last two months, I have only seen one adult not wearing a mask when they 'should' be - and everybody knows why he isn't*.






* He is completely bonkers and believes every conspiracy theory known to humanity, including the Illuminati fabricating this fake pandemic to allow them to insert microchips into you via the "vaccine".

Would that be generally considered to be a reasonable excuse?



I have also had this conversation with someone in Hampshire, a couple of days ago.

He asked me "Are people wearing masks over there?"

Yes, where they should be.

I don't think there's any point.

Well, there is - and there's no harm in doing it anyway, is there?

There's no point, if they don't wear them all the time.

Well, it doesn't matter anything like as much outdoors, though a lot of people here will leave them on if the next shop is close.

They should wear them in the street, too - if you're just putting them in your pocket, there'll be all sorts on it.

Do you wear a mask in a shop.

Yes.

Do you wear a mask in the street?

No

Where do you put the mask when you're in the street?

In my pocket.


...at that point, I gave up...
 

MilleD

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* He is completely bonkers and believes every conspiracy theory known to humanity, including the Illuminati fabricating this fake pandemic to allow them to insert microchips into you via the "vaccine".

Would that be generally considered to be a reasonable excuse?

It really wouldn't. Unless those beliefs would manifest in some sort of anxiety or PTSD sort of way.
 

basil

don't mention the blinds
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